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The act of expelling or throwing off

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  1. n. The act of expelling or throwing off
  2. n. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  3. n. Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
  4. n. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
  5. n. the act of removing or getting rid of something
  6. n. the bodily process of discharging waste matter
  7. n. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
  8. n. the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
  9. n. the murder of a competitor
  10. 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. 2. (Alg.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities. 3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
  11. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreignsubstances through the various emunctories.
  12. n:100 n. the act of removing or getting rid of something n. the bodily process of discharging waste matter n. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives